To get 2012 off to a start, I have five security predictions for the year ahead: 1) Brownouts I predict a major brownout to occur during 2012. Â By brownout I mean a critical failure in a key system due to over-capacity, with far reaching consequences. Â Something somewhere is going to be overloaded and fail spectacularly […]
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Our CEO Tim Holman was awarded Senior Member status on the 3rd January, 2012, to signify his long term support and leadership within the information security community. “Partnering with you on behalf of our profession is a privilege. Please accept my congratulations and appreciation for your continuing dedication.” – Ira Winkler, Chair, Fellow Program, Information
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Tim Holman, our CEO was featured in the Secure Business section of The Times on Thursday 8th December, talking about the professionalisation of information security and what makes a good chief security officer.
I’ve been to a few talks lately and it seems to be a growing theme. People think that being compliant doesn’t make you secure, and that to be “secure” you need to exceed what you are doing at a compliance level. I have to say I disagree, and I wish people wouldn’t keep quoting such
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Our next ISSA-UK event is on Tuesday 22nd November, 2011, at PWC in Leeds. Information Security / Computer Security changes and evolves constantly. What are the latest trends? ISSA brings you some thoughts on potential issues which we need to consider as a part of the corporate security strategy. Agenda: 16:00 Registration 16:30 Introduction, Les
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ISSA-UK and Microsoft have arranged a Microsoft Security Training Day on Tuesday December 13th, 2011. The aim of Security Training Days are to educate delegates as to new developments in technologies and solutions that will help them in their day-to-day security roles. This event is worth 5.5 CPDs/CPEs to contribute toward your ongoing security training
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ISSA-UK are holding their next training workshop in Bristol on Wednesday 9th November, 13:30 – 17:30. This is essential training for anybody with full or partial responsibility for Incident Response Management within their respective organisations. You will be hearing from our highly experienced workshop leader, Adrian Wright, ex-CISO Reuters and CEO/founder of Secoda, whom has
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This event was chaired by our CEO, Tim Holman, whom also addressed the audience of senior oil and gas executives from all over the world as to the risks that Advanced Persistent Threats could pose to their industry. As much is governed by industrial controls systems, the role of Stuxnet was discussed in depth, as
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I ran a couple of sessions at RSA Europe 2011 to talk about PCI DSS and Risk Based Compliance. What struck me was the make up of the audience. One or two years ago, I could have put good money on the make up of the audience being 90% merchants, but now, an equal balance
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